Wall-bed structure



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BURRELL L. JONES, F OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

WALL-BED STRUCTURE.

Original application filed December 19, 1922, Serial No. 607,813. Divided and this application filed September 29, 1923. Serial No. 665,555.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BURRELL L. JONES,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakland, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wall-Bed Structures, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to wall-bed structures, and especially to the foot structure of the bed which comprises the foot-rail and the foot-frame.

The subject matter of this application is that divided from my copending patent ap* plication Serial No. 607,818, filed December 19, 1922, titled WVall bed, and is here presented in an improved form.

The general objects of my invention are: the provision of a foot structure for wall beds having one-half thereof made rigid and integral with the bed-springs, and the other and lower half pivotally attachable to the upper-half structure; to have the lower half swing to the bed below the springs when the bed is raised to the vertical position; to

have the lower half, when the bed is lowered, swing on an arc and squarely into position within a socket in the upper half which looks the two halves together and gives them the appearance of but a single foot structure; and to produce the invention as a separate article of manufacture adapted for securement to existing as well as future bedsprings.

The invention possesses other advantageous features, some of which, with the foregoing, will be set forth at length in the following description where I shall outline in full that form of the invention which I have selected for illustration in the drawings accompanying and forming part of the present specification. In said drawings I have shown one form of my invention, but it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to such form, since the invention, as expressed in the claims, may be embodied in a plurality of forms.

Referring to said drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my im provement shown secured to the bed-springs of a wall bed; only a part of the springs being shown and the dot-and-dash lines illustrate the folding position of the footframe in use.

Fig. 2 is a front vie-w of Fig. 1 from the bed-spring side, and Fig. 3 a plan thereof. The curved part of the foot-rail is broken away to show the foot-frame cross-member.

Adverting to the figures of the drawing:

The numeral 1 indicates the bed-springs of 60 ed for permanent securcment to each end 05 of the bar 2 as by rivets 4 or other suitable means. This member rigidly supports the upper half of foot-rail 5 of the structure, and pivotally supports thereto the lower half or foot-frame 6. 7 is a hole through the member 3 and in which the foot-rail is seated to a suitable depth and secured therein preferably by welding. The balance of the hole 7 forms a socket for the reception of the upper terminal 8 of the foot-frame 6.

Immediately below the socket and to the leg of the foot-frame is fixedly secured by rivets or otherwise a bracket 9, having an overhanging portion 10 to which a stud 11 forms a part thereof at its extreme end.

The member 3 has an elongated slot 12 for the reception of the stud 11, forming the pivotal or hinge means of the invention. The slot is substantially the same length as the depth of the socket, as the stud 11 and 35 foot terminal 8 snugly slide within the member for this distance, effecting a stable and substantial support for the foot-frame when engaged in the socket, and easy, positive folding movement when disengaged from the socket as in the act of raising the bed.

To the bracket 9 an additional element 13 may be secured by the same fastening means used to secure the said bracket to the footframe leg. This element is preferably a metallic guide having a slot 14 therein to co act with a stationary stud 15 projecting from the member 3. The lower portion of the slot 14 is straight for a distance substantially the depth of the socket, and the balance is curved with a radius equal to the distance between the parallel center-lines of the socket and elongated slot 12.

In Fig. 2 the cross-members 16 and 17 are preferably metallic tubes welded respectively to the member 3 as at 18 Fig. 3, and to the frame leg as at 19 Fig. 2.

At 20, Fig. 1, I ehamfer the hole 7 for ease of entrance of the terminal 8 into the socket.

The figures show one side of my wall-bed structure, but it is to be understood that it continues and connects to opposite side and hand, forming a single article of manufacture adapted for permanent securement to the bed-spring member as previously mentioned.

In use, and when the bed is horizontal and viewed from the back, my invention appears to an observer to be a substantial single footstructure, but on raising the bed by lifting the foot-rail 5, the structure parts and the foot-frame 6 remains stationary until it is disengaged from the socket, then the stud s 11 functions at the lower end of the elongated slot 12, and the foot-frame pivotally swings to the dot-and-dash position of Fig. 1, but in the vertical position, the final position of the wall bed when raised.

Due to my novel hinge construction, it is to be noted that when the bed is rising, the foot-frame 6 is always hanging in a substantially vertical plane constrained so by the guide 13, which effects a graceful movement in the act of raising the bed.

\Vhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is the following:

1. A wall-bed structure comprising a footrail and a foot-frame, the latter consisting of a. pair of legs joined by cross-members, a bracket secured to the upper terminal re gion of each leg and a member superposed and pivotally supported on the said bracket, the said member provided with a hole therethrough adapted to engage the said terminal of each leg and the terminals of the footrail, the latter terminals being permanently secured in said holes for the abutment thereto of the said foot-frame terminals.

2. A wall-bed structure, comprising a frame having a bracket rigidly attached to amupper terminal thereof and pivotally attached to a superposed member for swinging the frame to the bed, and said member provided with a socket to receive the said upper terminal when the said frame is swung to its normal position, and the said bracket having a guide engageable by a stud on said member for guiding the said ter- 00 minal into the said socket.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

BURRELL L. J ONES. 

